INDUSTRIAL TEMPS LIMITED

📉Decliningactive
NI029155 · ltd · incorporated 1995-01-20
Investment thesis
Established operating company — standard diligence applies, no dominant angle.
Why interesting: Live, filing, normal profile.
Why risky: No standout signals in either direction.
Opportunity decay
drifting distress · 6-months
Drifting toward distress — expect more negotiability in 3–6 months, but also more friction.
  • · Lifecycle stage drifting downward
  • · Currently "declining"
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
£23.87M
year to Apr 2025
Net worth
—
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Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Temporary employment agency activities
Sector: Administrative & support services
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 61-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 61). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 2 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · oldest 27.1y

65/100
clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

  • · Oldest live charge is 27.1 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (79/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

Company profile
address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 4 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
97 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

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Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Profitable
Profit before tax £611,487
Turnover YoY
-3%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Apr 2024Apr 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-04-302024-04-30
Turnover£23.87M£24.67M
Gross profit£2.36M£2.72M
Operating profit£563.3k£1.19M
Profit before tax£611.5k£1.18M
Average employees12370067100

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

2 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
3
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 capital
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (29 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-03-31
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  2. 2026-01-29
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  3. 2025-01-31
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  4. 2024-08-09
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    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  5. 2024-08-09
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    memorandum-articles
    incorporation · MA
  6. 2024-02-08
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    accounts · AA
  7. 2023-01-13
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    accounts · AA
  8. 2023-01-01
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    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  9. 2022-12-13
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    capital-name-of-class-of-shares
    capital · SH08
  10. 2022-12-13
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  11. 2022-03-29
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    capital · SH08
  15. 2022-02-02
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    accounts · AA
  16. 2021-02-11
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  17. 2020-02-03
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    accounts · AA
  18. 2010-06-16
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    O'LOANE, Marie appointed
    secretary
  19. 2010-06-16
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    O'LOANE, Marie appointed
    director
  20. 2010-06-16
    ➖
    O'LOANE, Marie resigned
    secretary
  21. 2010-06-16
    ➖
    O'LOANE, Marie resigned
    director
  22. 1999-05-05
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Bank of Ireland
  23. 1999-05-05
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Bank of Ireland
  24. 1999-05-04
    ➕
    O'LOANE, Marie appointed
    director
  25. 1999-05-01
    ➖
    LEWIS, Tim resigned
    director
  26. 1995-01-20
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    Company incorporated
    As INDUSTRIAL TEMPS LIMITED
  27. 1995-01-20
    ➕
    O'LOANE, Liam appointed
    director
  28. 1995-01-20
    ➕
    O'LOANE, Marie appointed
    secretary
  29. 1995-01-20
    ➕
    LEWIS, Tim appointed
    director

Owner dependency

84/100
Critical — business is the founder

The business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 31 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 61 — approaching natural succession window.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 61. Early succession window.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 31 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 31 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
  • supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.

Red flags

clean
No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Liam O'Loane
Individual · Irish · DOB 10/1965 · age 61
—25–50%25-50% voting06/04/2016
Mrs Marie O'Loane
Individual · Irish · DOB 09/1966 · age 60
—25–50%25-50% voting06/04/2016

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1995-01-20
Jurisdictionnorthern-ireland
Primary SIC78200 — Temporary employment agency activities

Registered office

Park House
87-91 Great Victoria Street
Belfast
BT2 7AG

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-01-31
Last made up to: 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-06
Last: 2026-01-23

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

O'LOANE, Marie→
secretary · appointed 2010-06-16
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Active
O'LOANE, Liam→
director · ~61y · appointed 1995-01-20
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Active
O'LOANE, Marie→
director · ~60y · appointed 2010-06-16
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Active
O'LOANE, Marie→
secretary · appointed 1995-01-20 · resigned 2010-06-16
Resigned
LEWIS, Tim→
director · ~67y · appointed 1995-01-20 · resigned 1999-05-01
Resigned
O'LOANE, Marie→
director · ~60y · appointed 1999-05-04 · resigned 2010-06-16
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Bank of Ireland
Mortgage or charge1 property05/05/1999—
outstanding
Bank of Ireland
Mortgage or charge1 property05/05/1999—
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Recent filings (97 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2026-03-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-02-19
capital-name-of-class-of-shares
capital · SH08
2026-01-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-01-31
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2024-08-09
memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2024-08-09
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-07-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-02-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-19
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-01-13
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2023-01-01
capital-name-of-class-of-shares
capital · SH08
2022-12-13
capital-variation-of-rights-attached-to-shares
capital · SH10
2022-12-13